Define: "Run the Traps" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
""Find out who actually owns the budget and buy them coffee. CAB approval is a formality if the person writing the checks is on your side.""
"To systematically review, verify, or gain approval for a plan through all necessary organizational channels prior to execution."
What does "Run the Traps" actually mean?
"The exhausting political maneuvering required to ensure your proposed infrastructure migration has enough backdoor executive support before you present it to the CAB firing squad."
"Let's run the traps on this proposal with legal and compliance before we send it to the client."
""I spent all week running the traps on the FortiGate upgrade just so the security director wouldn't sabotage the change control ticket on Friday.""
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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